The
latest
new Game Informer Magazine features a huge preview on LEGO
Indiana
Jones! Their preview includes four pages of exclusive info
and brand new screenshots!

The preview also reveals the 7
platforms the game will be available on:
Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Playstation 2, PSP, Nintendo DS & PC.

The Wii will of course use motion
sensing to control Indy's whip. But Game Informer also reveals that the
system with the most original mechanics won't be the Wii, but the
Nintendo DS!

Game Informer:
Players will use the handheld's built-in microphone to blow out torches
and inflate rafts, and using the touch screen enables you to swing
Indy's whip.

And according to Game Informer, this
game will be released in June 2008.

I can't publish every bit of LEGO
Indiana Jones info and screenshots the Game Informer Magazine
reveals. But here follow only 3 of their 11 great new screenshots!
Enjoy.

Check out Game Informer's February 2008 issue for the full
preview on LEGO Indiana Jones. This issue should already be
available at newsstands.

And special thanks to 'Shipwreck' for
the information.

Posted by Gilles V

Play LEGO Indy
Game Online

31/01/08, 2:59pm EST

The
folks at LEGO are letting us get a sneak peak at the
upcoming LEGO Indiana Jones adventures with an online playable level.
Starting off in the Marshall College museum, players can look around
and highlight some of the more famous treasure hunts of Indy's past.
Rollover to the left and mouse over the Fertility Idol and you will get
a chance for some Indy action - LEGO style!

This level takes place in the Chachaopyan Temple, as you help Indy
dodge and jump over hazards while picking up gold coins all the time
being chased be the infamous rolling boulder. It looks great and there
are several more unlockable levels that will be open for play in the
coming months leading up to the games release now scheduled for June.

So sit back, grab that mouse, take a break (or brick) and play LEGO Indy!

Posted by Mitchell
Hallock

GameSpot's LEGO
Indiana
Jones Q&A

10/02/08, 11:42am
EST

GameSpot has interviewed LucasArts producer Shawn
Storc to find out what will be crammed into their new LEGO Indiana
Jones video game. GameSpot's Q&A article comes with a brand new
set of LEGO Indy screenshots as well.

GameSpot: Where
did the idea to do a Lego version of the Indiana Jones movies come from?

Shawn Storc: "Indy is a natural fit for a game like this that
encourages exploration, adventure, and cooperative gameplay, as well as
a healthy dose of humor."

GS: How will the
gameplay differ from Lego Star Wars?

SS: "The characters in the game are much more in tune with
their surroundings and are much more physically active as they
encounter puzzles, traps, and enemies. For example, you can pick up
objects in-game and use them to battle enemies, solve puzzles, light
fires or barrels of gunpowder. On top of that, characters are quite
athletic and can now climb ropes and swing on vines, swim, and shimmy
hand-over-hand across ledges. All of these open up a variety of
gameplay options we were previously unable to offer players."

GS: Will there be
any content in the game based on the upcoming film?

SS: "As much as we would love to use content from the new
movie, our focus remains on the first three original adventures of
Indiana Jones."

Click here to read GameSpot's full interview with
LucasArts producer Shawn Storc and view the new screenshots.

Besides
LEGO,
there will be another digital incarnation of Indiana Jones racing
across display screen for some gaming action this May coming from THQ
Wirelss. The software gaming firm well known for their mobile phone
games of films like Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, will be be
giving gamers on the go a chance to grab the Kingdom of the Crystal
Skull.

Pocketgamer.co.uk has seen some of the new game
and posted some of the screen shots of Indy and Mutt racing around
being chased by warriors. While not giving away too much, the game
definitely looks to be a fast paced way to pass the time when you are
waiting around and only have your phone to keep you company.

You can see the SPOILER images at Pocketgamer.co.uk and register to receive updates
on the new Indiana Jones game as they become available.

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original
Adventures will support four-player co-operative play. This is said
to only be in the console versions, so assume PS3, 360, Wii and PS2 for
now. We would expect the PC offering to have it, too.

The game will incorporate many
puzzles, alongside other adventure elements but there will be plenty of
brawls as well.

The game will use the plot from Raiders
of
the Lost Ark and it is still fully intact, just no swastikas on
the Nazi villains.

The game is set at Barnett College
providing the hub area that you access the 18 levels from - six for
each of the three films.

Interestingly there is no mention
of the new film, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
being replicated here, even though it launches a week before the game.

The Wii version should differ from
the others with its motion-sensing controls.

Elsewhere the whip is described as
being useful for getting to places as well as for whipping baddies, and
you will be able to control the monkey in the DS version while
inflating things by blowing into the microphone.

And the latest issue of Edge magazine
(UK video games magazine) has LEGO Indiana Jones on the cover
and a large article inside with lots of never-before-seen concept art
and screenshots; such as a recreation of the original Raiders
poster and screenshots showing other new LEGO characters like Willie
Scott.

No date has been announced for the
release date for Europe, but LucasArts has revealed that LEGO
Indiana Jones will be released for all seven platforms in the US on
3rd June.

Posted by Mitchell
Hallock

The Other Indy
Video Game "In Production"

23/02/08, 7:34pm EST

Actiontrip.com has an update on the other video
game that will be hitting consoles besides the LEGO Indy game.

LucasArts is working on another
Indiana Jones game, which has only just gone into production apparently
(this one is not to be confused with LEGO Indiana Jones). A
source at LucasArts unofficially revealed during the GDC that the game
was in pre-production for roughly two years and eventually got
sidetracked due to the development of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

Similarly to Force Unleashed,
this
new Indiana Jones game relies on NaturalMotion's "euphoria"
technology (you've seen how it works in recent trailers for Star
Wars: The Force Unleashed).

No additional information has been
given at this time. The game has a TBA release date.

So gamers will be getting their
chances at "fortune and glory" long after Indiana Jones finds the
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull this May.

We assume that they are referring to this
Indiana Jones video game that was first announced in 2006 and has a
teaser page at LucasArts.com.

Posted by Mitchell
Hallock

New LEGO
Indiana Jones In-Game Footage

29/02/08, 7:18pm EST

Entertainment Weekly has posted new in-game footage from the upcoming LEGO
Indiana Jones: The Videogame from LucasArts and TT GAmes. The new 3
min. footage shows clips from what can only be the first chapter, based
on the opening scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Developed by the same team at
Traveller's Tales that created the LEGO Star Wars series, LEGO
Indiana
Jones presents a tongue-in-cheek take on the first three
cinematic adventures of pop culture's most iconic archaeologist,
including Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the
Temple of Doom and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.

There
is
a lot to cover or rather uncover when it comes to see what went into
creating what looks to be one of the hottest games of the year; Lego
Indiana
Jones. IGN.com
caught up with the folks behind the game, and have a very detailed
report on the game was created and how it was designed to be different.

Here are some excerpts:

Traveller's Tales has trained its
eyes on Lucas's much-loved matinee world of dusty leather jackets and
archeological hijinks. Indiana Jones and LEGO make a pairing perhaps
even more fitting than the developer's previous space-bound union, the
more playful humour of Indy's whip-cracking yarns squeezing snugly into
the template established through preceding LEGO Star Wars games.

With such a strong formula already
in place, it's easy to assume that producing the LEGO Indiana Jones
game would be a breeze. Surely it's simply a matter of dumping a couple
of temples into the Tatooinie desert, giving Luke Skywalker a whip and
- while you're at it - why not just throw in the Dr. Jones model that
made a cameo in The Complete Saga? However tempting it might
have been to throw together this new game from the bricks of the last,
Ricks assures us there's a little more going on in LEGO Indiana
Jones: "It's a natural assumption that both Star
Wars and Indiana Jones are action properties so it would be an easy
fix to port one across – and that's what we started to do, but before
you knew it, it felt like LEGO Star Wars set in 1945 and you
were just running around blasting everything, flicking levers."

"What we had
to do was strip it all back and look at what makes Indy films different
to Star Wars films and use that guideline to apply to the games,"
Ricks
explains. "A lot of it's about exploration,
solving puzzles and riddles and things like that. We took that as our
mantra and applied it to how you use LEGO in the game. In LEGO Star
Wars you obviously had the Force, and that involved building. We
wanted to take it on."

Darker elements Nazis, and "LEGO
Hitler"!? Everyone hates those guys - even as a brick!

Some of the darker elements of the
Indiana Jones series – of which there are many – provide an interesting
hurdle for the development team, but its solution is constantly a
delight. For instance, come the climax of Raiders of the Lost Ark
and there's is no face melting. Instead, we see the ink washing off the
faces of those exposed to the Ark's holy light.

Likewise, LEGO Nazis might have
raised some eyebrows but TT didn't have to go too far for a solution.
Ricks admits LEGO had already done the legwork, noting, "That was already solved because there's a LEGO Indiana
Jones toy series, so they'd had those conversations internally. We did
have talks about whether we could have a Weimarch Cross, or whether we
could have an eagle. We can have eagles on lapels but there's no LEGO
Hitler."

Sidekicks? Now who doesn't like those
guys and gals!

However, it's another element of
the established LEGO formula that's had an overhaul too. "An aspect we wanted to look at was sidekicks,"
explains Ricks. "In LEGO Star Wars you've
obviously got a breadth of characters which fit very well with our
party structure, but in LEGO Indiana Jones, whilst it has
sidekicks and sidekicks are very important, he's the titular character,
and we didn't want to be just a case of 'Here's Indy... and some other
people'".

To read the article in its entirety
head on over to IGN.com and look at some of the games screen
shots as well.

Leapfrog the
makers of children's
interactive books and electronic toys have just released a synopsis and
cover image of their new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the
Crystal Skull game for the Leapfrog system. Leapfrog is
like an education, big button Nintendo DS, designed to help smaller
children with easy reaching and math problems designed around various
licenscees like Dora, Spider-Man, Batman, Cars,
etc.,
now you can add Indy to the mix.

The new game posted on BN.com kind of
lets the Mutt out of the bag (if the info is accurate) as far as what
could be going on in the next film. Click here to read what it says, but only read it
if you DO NOT want to be surprised!

There you go, and smaller Indy fans
can help Indy on the Crystal Skull quest in May.

Game Informer is back with even more tidbits on
the new LEGO Indiana Jones video game, in a Q&A with the
game’s associate producer, Kellam Eanes.

Here are some of the juicy details:

Game Informer: We
know that Lego Indiana Jones will encapsulate the action from the first
three movies—will there be any levels, characters or references to the
upcoming Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull?Kellam Eanes: "Right now, the team is focused squarely on making sure
that this game is the best that it can be. However, we are extremely
excited about the upcoming release of Indiana Jones: The Kingdom of
the Crystal Skull, but there are no plans at this time to make it
into a game."

GI: Indiana Jones
is obviously a pretty great character. How did you tailor the other
playable characters in the game so they’re fun to play as, too, so
player two doesn’t get too jealous?Eanes: "There are going to be a lot of familiar faces around
to help Indy get out, each with abilities that Indy doesn’t have.
Satipo and Sallah can help dig up buried objects, while Marion
Ravenwood and other female characters have a double jump ability which
allows them to retrieve hard to reach objects. Willie Scott also gets
in on the action and can break glass with her shrill scream. You’ll
also be able to play as other characters that can fix broken machinery
and decipher codes, too."

GI: Will players be
able to beat up Marcus Brody? We hear he really has it coming…Eanes: "Yes, even though he’s a good guy, you will have the
opportunity to vent all of your frustrations on Lego Marcus if you so
desire."

Follow the link to GameInformer.to to find out if players will also
be able to beat up Marcus Brody and see some new screenshots as well.

And be sure to check out Gamespot's LEGO Indiana Jones pages fore
more new screenshots, previews, and a video interview showing new in-game footage!

ToysRUs.com ($24.99 US) and Walmart.com ($19.96 US) are making the new Indiana
Jones DVD Game available for pre-order on their respective websites.
Using your DVD Remote, fans can guide Indy through this TV adventure by
answering a myriad of trivia and puzzles. Here is the description from Walmart:

Relive the fateful moments of your
favorite Indiana Jones movies and experience what life is like as a
great adventurer! Navigate your way through an ancient temple and
discover lost relics deep in the heart of the Amazon. Do battle with
on-screen villains and race out of the temple before it collapses.
Uncover the relics and escape with the most fortune to win the game!

THQ
is
making their latest mobile phone game featuring the adventures of
Indiana Jones and Mutt available to users as of May 1st. From Gamershell.com
comes this information:

You play as Indiana Jones and Mutt
Williams in their journey full of adventures and dangers through the
jungles, cemeteries and temples of Peru. Indy uses his legendary whip
to defeat enemies and to swing his way over the gaps, obstacles and up
to the higher platforms. Indy also has an ability to defeat enemies on
lower platforms by attacking them from above. Take a look at these screenshots and download all three trailers.

Players
can
now download a demo for LucasArts' LEGO Indiana Jones: The
Original Adventures game. Utilizing the formula of the LEGO
Star Wars games, LEGO Indiana Jones thrust players into the
shoes of the famed adventurer, and places gamers in the original
Indiana Jones trilogy that started it all.

The 464.6 MB demo can be downloaded at
Games For Windows. The full version of the game
releases June 3.

Visit the official updated LEGO
Indiana
Jones site by LucasArts for more information and features.

The good news: LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures is
released in stores around the United States of America today!
The less good news: Other countries will have to wait till this Friday,
June 6th, to crack that LEGO whip!

And LucasArts’ and Traveller’s Tales’
have thought about all Indy fans as the new blockbuster LEGO game is
available on all available platforms : XBox 360, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, DS
and the PC of course!

LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original
Adventures takes the fun and creative construction of LEGO and
combines it with the wits, daring and non-stop action from the original
cinematic adventures that enthralled audiences everywhere (Raiders
of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). With a humorous take
on these original adventures, LEGO Indiana Jones follows Dr. Jones
escapades through the jungles of South America to the mountaintops of
India where you will build, battle and brawl your way through your
favorite moments, from Indy's entanglements with snakes to his dashing
boulder run. And with the help of a host of supporting characters
including Marion Ravenwood and Short Round, players can also mix and
match the body parts of more than 60 playable characters to create new
heroes just as they could in the best-selling LEGO Star Wars
games.

The LEGO Indiana Jones: The
Original Adventures is already received very positive reviews from
critics and users at GameSpot. And be sure to check out the LEGO Indy
article at MTV Multiplayer as well. But the best source for
LEGO Indiana Jones information remains www.legoindianajonesgame.com
-- until TheRaider.net's Indy Games section is finished. Ha!

Posted by Gilles V

LEGO Indiana
Jones Game Review

05/06/08, 4:30pm EST

LEGO Temple of Doom T-shirt image.

I waited with anticipation for my kids to get home as I had sworn that
I would not play LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
until they arrived home from school. The anticipation was excruciating,
all I had to tie me over was looking at the exclusive LEGO Indy video
game shirt that I received from the local Gamestop video game store as
part of the pre-order. It depicts the LEGO Temple of Doom
gang (Indy, Willie and Short Round) hurtling through the mine shafts in
a mine car and has a secret code to unlock Mola Ram on the front. I did
get to watch the trailer for LEGO Batman and the LEGO
Indy trailer (I was still keeping to my promise, for I was
watching the extras and not playing the game).

Finally it was time I told the kids to
forgo their homework and start playing and with that we fired up the
Xbox 360 and went adventuring. From the dazzling almost 3D quality of
the graphics we were all transported into the pixelated South American
jungle, we laughed at the cartoony antics of Satipo and Indy as they
edged their way into the Temple. The game is inventive and never dull
as you revisit familiar territory but now seen through an entirely
whimsical point of view. My boys were jumping up and down screaming
"duck" and "run" to each other as they made their way through traps and
dangerous predicaments. Climaxing in the run from from the boulder and
meeting Belloq, who does a great robot dance when Indy presents the
golden head of C-3P0 instead of the idol to him, followed by a rubber
duck.

There are many more cameos by LEGO
Star
Wars characters throughout Indy's adventures (look for Hoth
Luke upside down in the Wampa's cave near the Raven bar) and all are a
delight as we are presented with the closest encounter Indy will ever
have with aliens from another galaxy (LEGO Indy that is). What
is remarkable about the genius behind the LEGO Indy game is how all the
gun play and violence have been transformed into hilarious moments. We
skipped around as the kids wanted to play in the Temple of Doom and had
a ball, I was surprised to see how the sacrifice scene is totally
redone and no one gets hurt (though clothes are burned off much to the
chagrin of the victim - but it beats the old "heartburn"). I want to do
the Ark opening and see how it is done. The mine chase is great and and
Mola Ram has never looked better, the Club Obi Wan is a thrill as you
take control of a poisoned Indy and escape Lao's baddies. The kids
loved Short Round (who doesn't) and wanted to go back and do the whole
game in FREEPLAY mode using him and Mola Ram -- what a team-up, that is!

Oddly, Barnett College and not
Marshall College is Indy's base of operations for this game, but that
is the only drawback in this truly amazing video game. Fedoras off to
the team of engineers and comedy writers who brought this latest
edition of the LEGO series to market. This has to be THE best Indiana
Jones game ever to be released just for the sheer fun of watching it
all play out before your eyes. We at the Hallock home will be playing
and replaying this game for a long, long time. The next question we all
have is when is the LEGO Crystal Skull coming out!

Posted by Mitchell
Hallock

Indiana Jones
Video Game "Very Much" in Development

23/07/08, 4:25pm EST

LucasArts'
lack
of promo presence for Indiana Jones and the Staff of Kings at
E3
2008 makes people wonder if the game is in trouble. DailyGame received confirmation from LucasArts
that the new Indy video game is still "very deep into development".

During our E3 demo with LucasArts
this morning (Clone Wars, Fracture and Force
Unleashed), DailyGame was able to confirm that the Indiana Jones
videogame first shown at E3 2006 is still "very much" in development.

Rumors have swirled that the
Indiana Jones game for PS3 and Xbox 360 had been cancelled, either
because it missed the window tying it to Kingdom of the Crystal
Skull, or because recent layoffs had put development on hiatus.

That's very far from the truth,
says LucasArts.

Apparently, the Indiana Jones PS3
and Xbox 360 game is "very deep into development," with a team "working
very actively" to bring the game up to a form for public/media
consumption. And, because the game shares an engine with Star
Wars: The Force Unleashed, which ships this fall, such a display
may not be as far off as you might think.

The progress the development team
is making has apparently been paying off in strides, as one LucasArts
representative told us that "the game looks great." With any luck,
we'll be able to determine that for ourselves in the months ahead.

I believe it has been since the
videogame's first announcement at E3 2006 that we have seen, or heard,
anything new. And it doesn't look like the new Indy game will make an
appearance at the San Diego Comic-Con 2008 either.

PEGI, the European rating board, reveals new info on LucasArt's long awaited Indiana
Jones
game for the "next generation consoles"... yeah, it's been a
while. In fact, the last time we have heard or seen anything decent on
this new Indiana Jones video game dates back from 2006!

Now, LucasArts' Indiana Jones and
the Staff of Kings turned up in the PEGI online database as a Nintendo DS &
PlayStation Portable game.

This new info could mean two things;
LucasArts has decided to scrap the console Indy game in favor of
easier-to-make Nintendo DS and PSP, or they are planning a massive
multiplatform release for Indiana Jones and the Staff of King!

At the beginning of this year, it
was rumoured that a developer called A2M were working on a version of Indiana
Jones
and the Staff of Kings for less powerful consoles (Wii, PS2,
PSP and DS) much like how Krome Studios have done with The Force
Unleashed. The rumour suggested that their version not only had a
smoother development than the LucasArts version but that it was going
to be released this year to coincide with the home video release of Indy
IV...

Expect to find out more on this Staff
of
King video game during the coming months. Best guess would be Kingdom
of
the Crystal Skull DVD month, October!

Two
years
ago, at E3 2006, LucasArts revealed the first images and videos
of a new Indiana Jones game for the next generation consoles. And we
haven't heard or seen much new things of this Indy game since then. But
LucasArts representatives say the new game -- also know as Indiana
Jones and the Staff of Kings -- is still in development!

Two new environment screenshots.

The latest update/rumor doesn't come
from a LucasArts official but leaked onto a blog named gone is gone.
The
most interesting part is that the blog also posted two new
environment screenshots, supposedly from the new Indiana Jones video
game.

While LucasArts and also the Indiana
Jones staff saw massive layoffs this June, Indiana Jones and the
Staff of Kings (PS3/Xbox 360) was delayed to 2009. Why not cancel
or outsource it like every other LucasArts game?

Additionally, there was or is a
still unreleased PSP pendant titled Staff of Moses. Amaze
Entertainment finished it sometime in 2007. The studio also did several
internal demos for Indiana Jones Wii (never turned into something real,
I guess). However, the PSP title might stay unpublished since A2M
started development of Indiana Jones games (at least for Nintendo DS,
PS2 and Wii) in June 2007, right when Amaze Entertainment was more or
less giving Staff of Moses the final touches.

A nice sum-up of latest Staff of
Kings info, alongside screenshots and concept art/model can be
found at Tiscali Games.

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